A window serenade
(1/1/2007) The 36 clerestory windows, each five feet wide and four feet high, encircle the recently opened Gwen Harris Music Building at the St. Barnabas-on-the-Desert campus. They were designed by artist Sarah Hall of Toronto and created at the Glasmalerei Peters studio in Germany, where Hall worked alongside six highly trained craftspeople.
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Testament in tapestry
(11/1/2006) An art project launched in a small South African town is giving North Americans an appreciation for the scope of the AIDS epidemic and the resilience of Africans who cope daily with the loss of family members and the resulting turmoil in their communities.
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Know thine Enemies
(4/1/2006) Richard Gage, a parishioner of Chicago�s St. James Episcopal Cathedral since 1983, has organized two art exhibits at the cathedral during Lent. Last year, Gage coupled original poetry with black-and-white photos of the Holy Land to create a powerful Stations of the Cross exhibit. This year�s exhibit is titled Enemies.
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Contemporary icons
(3/1/2006) The Pennsylvania native who attended a Quaker private school said that despite being a lifelong Episcopalian, she was unfamiliar with iconography and the Stations of the Cross. She immersed herself in the topic, poring through books, visiting museums and searching for paintings and sculptures amidst the encyclopedic quantity of Christian art.
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Deepening ties through art
(11/1/2005) Mary Howe has learned to break down barriers by picking up paintbrushes. �[Art] is just a wonderful opportunity to begin conversations with people that you wouldn�t normally have,� she said. �It gives you an opportunity to talk with people on another level and get beyond the barriers that exist.�
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Celebrating creativity
(11/1/2005) An Episcopal priest, Wolf is spending more time honoring God in this way after leaving a regional ministry in Tennessee last summer. She had spent time at other churches before that -- the cathedral in Hartford, Conn.; a parish in St. Louis; a mission church that she guided to parish status in Tennessee.
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Icon-o-classic
(10/1/2005) �It started from a conversation I had with the rector of my church, who was asking about the interior of our parish church and wondering about making it feel like more of a holy space,� recounts Schleck, 59, who attends Christ Church, Tom�s River, N.J. She blurted out: It needs an icon above the altar.
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Roots of healing
(9/1/2005) Tobin, who has been creating art since he was 13, described the response of St. Paul�s to the disaster as �the only uplifting story� surrounding the terrorist attacks.
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Scuplting a tribute
(9/1/2005) John Collier of Dallas was selected from among 30 artists who made proposals to create the 9/11 memorial at St. Joseph�s Chapel next to Ground Zero.
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A final work of art
(2/1/2005) When members of St. Augustine�s Episcopal Church on Whidbey Island in the Diocese of Olympia observed Lent last year, they followed the Way of the Cross each Friday, praying before newly installed and blessed Stations of the Cross created from sheet metal by a retired carpenter from Texas.
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Humble recipe for detailed artwork
(1/1/2005) �I �steal� ideas from nature,� she explains. �I incorporate photographs and images, and I design around fabric remnants using yarn left over from my weaving.� The result, however, is like trifle: A humble recipe for leftover cake became a chi-chi dessert.
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Delighting in whimsy
(6/1/2004) �� it was as if God was talking to me � asking me what it was that I wanted. �Well,� I thought, �it would be nice to have a $2 million commission � but not at the expense of making sterile art.�� Haas said that when he looked again at the piece on his workbench, it had transmogrified itself into a crucifix.
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Contemporary view of Passion
(3/1/2004) THE FIRST STATION of the Cross: Jesus is Condemned to Die.� Thomas Faulkner said these words as if leading a Good Friday liturgy for a small congregation in one of the vast, old New York churches he served for many years.
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The language of arts
(2/1/2004) As an artist-in-residence at Trinity Episcopal Church in Buffalo, N.Y., Catherine Parker strives to make the "art and soul" connection for congregants, as well as artists in her community.
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Spirited stone
(1/1/2004) Steven Gotfried, the director of communications for Washington National Cathedral, is trying to help me see the "Darth Vader" gargoyle. But my eyes are drawn back again to a gargoyle below, a homely little figure with five o'clock shadow wearing a golf shirt, with a hole in one shoe and a cloven hoof, toting a mallet and a chisel.
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Expanding on our notion of the sacred
(6/1/2002) Kathrin Burleson's traditional icons are the work of a deeply religious artist who sees the physical presence of the Incarnation in her paintings. But her choice of subjects tends to raise eyebrows among some traditionalists.
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After September 11th
(4/1/2002) It was several weeks after the terrorist attacks when the ECVA board discussed how it could respond to the horrific events of that day. "We decided on a show beginning in Lent that would exhibit artistic reflections ... on the events of that day or how our lives have subsequently been changed," says the curators' statement on the site.
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An artist brings the Good Shepherd to 'life'
(11/1/2001) John Collier's fine hand has created illustrations for book covers and magazines such as Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, McCall's, GQ and Good Housekeeping for nearly a quarter-century. His clients have included Walt Disney, Warner Brother Records, Swissair and Hallmark.
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